help! MASKED MAN at my door

[knowbody0]

15 years i've been here. my property flows into the woods, and i have a natural fence of blackberries along the driveway separating me from the neighbor. "what's that smell" i ask. "poison" he says. "i can't make you cut them down, so i am killing them"
OK - WTF do i do now?
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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Call the cops.

Really. He is tresspassing and destroying your property.

[knowbody0]

4. he says he is killing his side

but me and the kids are all coughing. i called the cops

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. What???

[SmokingJacket]

3. Make him a pie??

Honestly: why cut down blackberries?

Damn, I'd kill for a berry bush in my yard, but nothing but grows in my clay.

[rexcat]

If he is destroying plants on your property...

and the plants are not on his I would file a report with the police and take him to small claims court for any damage done.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

5. Call the police.

He stated it himself in your quote, "I can't make you cut them down, so I am killing them"
Although I don't know the entire story, if he's poisioning plants on your property to get rid of them, he's breaking the law.
Call the police. Now.

[Left_Winger]

8. I second that - call the police

[Shell Beau]

6. Who is he? Does he have

any legal right to do that? If not, call for police for trespassing and destroying your property.

[knowbody0]

9. new neighbor

he clear cut the forest that was there and now weed eats the 2 and a half acre lot. i am waiting for the sheriff.

[Shell Beau]

10. Keep us posted.

[LisaM]

7. I hope you don't have pets

What a creep. I know blackberries are a little invasive, but if you are in the woods, I think it's fine to have them. I would call the police AND I would call the newspaper so they can expose his deed.

[knowbody0]

11. my "hunter" kitty is out there somewhere

[maxsolomon]

12. "a little invasive"?

himalayan blackberries are THE MOST INVASIVE plant in the PNW. they take over any neglected land quickly, forming a viscious tangle of thorns that only rats can use as habitat. the berries, in my studied opinion, SUCK compared to native blackberries.

you neighbor is a dick. he should never use pesticides to kill plants, especially without trying to convince you to remove them. there are natural methods like DIGGING THEM UP WITH A BIG MACHINE.

but i would hesitate to call a patch of blackberries, which are likely a constant battle to keep from invading his property, a "natural fence".

[LisaM]

13. Well it sounds as if he doesn't want plants on his property

in which case I fail to understand why he moved to a forest.

I don't think she said what kind of blackberries they are.

[Archae]

17. Doesn't want plants on his property?

Why? Afraid of living things smarter than he is? :D

[progressoid]

14. Here there are laws about that kind of thing.

We are allowed to trim tree branches etc that hang into our property from a neighbor. But spray to kill them? That's illegal (and nutty).

If you are sure they are planted on your side of the property just hose them off....after the police arrive.

As a side note. If they do die. Replace them with something else. Blackberries are a PITA.

[ps1074]

15. call the cops

If it was me I would probably kick his ass but that is a bad idea. Poor blackberries :( Why would anyone wanna kill them?

[knowbody0]

16. we freeze these berries every summer

and eat them all winter. what a moron. why he moved here, i'll never understand. he says he is from east Texas...........anyway, he left and the sheriff arrived five minutes later. to prove damage i need to photo the before and after. i have lilac hedge as well, sigh.